Marie-Gabrielle de Saint-Eutrope

by Georges Pichard

Poor Marie-Gabrielle is subjected to every abject humiliation in the name of Godly penitence in this very graphic graphic novel. Burning, branding, piercing, caning, enemas, rape, torture...Not for the faint of heart!

Genres: Graphic Novels

141 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Georges Pichard inició su carrera como dibujante publicitario, aunque después de la II Guerra Mundial se dedicó profesionalmente a la enseñanza de dibujo en la Escuela de Artes Aplicadas de la capital francesa. Desde mediados de los años cuarenta colabora con algún dibujo o alguna ilustración en publicaciones que ofrecían humor gráfico o historietas satíricas, como las del sello Imperia. Rire o Veillées des Chaumières. Fue Losfeld, el carismático editor francés, quien le descubrió para la historieta, encargándole una obra para la revista V Magazine: "Lolly Strip".

Su turbadora forma de componer y dominar los volúmenes le capacitaba para el cómic erótico y lo demostró con sus siguientes trabajos: Blanche Epiphanie, Paulette (acaso su obra más popular), y Caroline Choiera. En los años cincuenta colaboró con revistas francesas de la relevancia de La Semaine de Suzette o Chouchou para la cual dibujó "Ténébrax", sobre guiones de Lob. Con este versátil guionista abordó la adaptación homérica "Ulysse", que le consolidó como gran historietista de su tiempo tras su publicación -fragmentada- en Linus, en Charlie y en Phénix.
Otros trabajos de Pichard se publicaron en distintas cabeceras francesas: Culbuteur L'Echo des Savanes, Le Canard Enchainé, incluso France Soir.

Reviews

[StrictlySequential · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the most difficult time I have ever had reading anything sequential. It has taken me something like fifteen sessions, since March 2019, because I could never get very far without being overwhelmed by horror and/or disgust. Then it would sit indefinitely until I decided that I needed to finish it someday just to get it out of my constantly frequented "to read" closet and into the masses of "The Bibliomecca" proper downstairs.

It's terrifying. I don't feel like describing it but I will say that Pichard did his usual excellent job portraying it. That's how it achieved *** instead of * because I did NOT "like" it. He cut no corners- especially with all the words that he packed in beside his dense art. Some pages are intimidating to read in their length if you aren't the prose type. But the study he did for it must have been staggering and makes me wonder why he would become involved at all. Whatever inventiveness he added... he should be ashamed of.

I don't recommend this to anyone unless you're a "sicko" who gets off on real mind and body horror or someone who wants to see just how evil and perverse the general public, clergymen and ESPECIALLY SICK AND TWISTED NUNS could be in that century. It's a ferocious display of the most misguided of Christians who didn't kill. God help you if you get a thrill.

[Ezma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just a few days ago, "movies you liked but would never watch again" was trending on Twitter. Count this as the graphic novel version. It's deeply biting at the church and very sexually uncomfortable. The art is wonderful and the writing is well done, but man, I don't think I could go through that again.

[Ilia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Relentlessly unpleasant, although the ironic tone overlayed over the images of tortured women at least highlights the awesome and endless hypocracy of the torturers.